Capt. Norris served in Co. K, 7th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA from Wilson County, which mustered in before TN seceded and was part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Writing to his father, Capt. Norris describes mostly "domestic" news from winter...

According to descendants this is a tintype of Joseph Dixon Pickett. He is shown wearing a US issued jacket, a US saber belt, and holding a Colt revolver. No records for a Joseph Dixon Pickett were located. However, a John D. Pickett served in Co....

Audio files of Fentress County resident Porter Linder recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Tales of Stearns Logging illustrate the commercial logging that came to the Big South Fork area between 1900 and 1920. The logging...

Audio files of Fentress County resident Porter Linder recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Tales of Stearns Logging illustrate the commercial logging that came to the Big South Fork area between 1900 and 1920. The logging...

Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife Mary in Maury County, Tennessee. He writes about his plans to send her $15,000 in U.S. Treasury notes to invest in real estate to curb currency depreciation and insure...

Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife Mary in Maury County, Tennessee. He writes that he has not heard from his wife or children since August. He desires to know whether Mary has received the $15,000 in...

Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife, Mary, in Maury County, Tennessee. He is concerned that his letters are not reaching her, and he observes, "What is property or anything else compared to one's...

Begins with ball preparations and her disapointment of some officers' behavior. Next writes of very strong storms in the night. Finally she writes that Morgans men that are behaving badly, and he is "losing character by the way they go on stealing...

French begins by writing of an inconvenient situation (a boil) which obliged her to lie on her back at all times. She describes Confederate Gen. Wheeler's capture of about 800 Union troops in McMinnville and Wheeler's opening of their commissary...

The Battle of Stones River was to decide whether or not the French family were still to have a home, or be sent forth as refugees to find a sojourning place in a land of strangers. Cannonading was heard in the direction of Murfreesboro. Everything...

A man inspecting a concrete pipe manufactured by the Civilian Conservation Corps for use in constructing forest roads. Five rows of pipes are visible, the second of which has planks of wood, presumably for rolling the heavy concrete pipes in order...